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Three months ago, we blogged that it could be crunch time for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC)’s rules on aid. These are the rules that decide how much ‘aid credit’ donors have earned, and hence how they measure up against the UN target that aid should account for at least 0.7% of national income. When we posted that blog, DAC members had been given a deadline of 26 April to decide on the new rules, which would allow them to report more support for private sector actors in Southern countries as Official Development Assistance (ODA). We were concerned that the DAC was rushing into far-reaching changes, without having built in basic safeguards to protect the core purpose of ODA – poverty reduction. So where do ...

Blink and you might miss it: but a seemingly low-key meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) officials this week could signal one of the biggest changes in decades to the way that donors think about aid. That’s because tomorrow’s meeting [April 26] could be decision time on the rules governing ‘private sector instruments’ (PSIs). The proposed rule changes would allow donors to count more of their investment in, and other support to, private sector companies as aid, if those companies are doing business in developing countries, and if certain conditions are met. Civil society, from both North and South, has been warning of risks in these proposed changes for months. To be clear: our concerns aren’t ...

The latest statistics on Official Development Assistance (ODA) were released yesterday, and reported that total ODA from members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC) group of rich countries was US$142.6 ...

Eurodad recently made a submission to a discussion hosted by the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) on "Leveraging Effective Development Cooperation (EDC) to mobilize existing resources for development and enhance private ...

The ongoing discussion at the OECD DAC on whether the ODA concept should be modernised provides an opportunity to refine existing rules and ensure that they are fully focused on supporting the achievement of developmental goals. The current ambiguity ...